Flanging-machine.



J. BRENZINGERL FLANGING MACHINE. PPLIOATION FILED AUG. 15. 1907.

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JULI US BRENZINGEB, .OF MOUNT VERNON. NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNi MENTS, TO MAX AMS MACHINE COMPANY, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK,

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

FLANGING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 15, 1907. Serial No. 388,731.

1" 0 ciltwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J r'LItfs Bnnivzixonn, a citlzen of the United States. residing at Mount- Vernon. in the county of W'estchester sheetanetal. containers generally known as tin cans.

It is well knownthat preliminary to the operation of doubleseaming, the heads or end-portions t0 the body-portions of con tainers of this class, it is necessary that the ends of said body-portion be each provided with a flange which projects outwardly, sub stantially atright angles to the wall of the can-body, which flange is. by the seaming operation, curled, rolled or folded with the correspondingly-shaped edge of said head or cover into a substantially solid annular bead, comprising portions of both to and body, which forms a tight and interloc 'ed seam or joint.

In flanging machines as heretofore constructed, it has been necessary for the operator to supply and adjust a can-body for each operation and to remove the flanged body thereafter. preliminary to the. adjustmentof another body for the next succeeding operation. The process of Hanging an endless edge being necessarily a process of gradual forming. it is consequently a com- Therefore. where a can-body mustbe properly adjusted by an operator prior to, and removed subsequent to, each flanging operation. the maximum capacity of the machine must necessarily be exceedingly limited.

The primary object of the present invention, therefore, is the construction of a flan ing machine of this character which shall be entirely automatic in its action, the canbodies being automatically delivered there to, properly adjusted. flanged and ejected therefrom after the Hanging operation.

'Further and scarcely less important objects of the invention are rapidity of-action in the fianging operation and automatic continuity of successive operations, whereby the capacity of such machines may be materially increased.

My invention will be more readily nnderstood by reference to the accompanying.

drawings, forming a part of this speeitica-f tion, in which Figure l is a side elevation of a machine embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof: Fig. 3 is an enlarged central vertical section of one of the counterpart. halves of the fianging mechanism; Fig.

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4c is a horizontal section of the same; Fig. 5 l

is an enlarged cross-sectional elevation, t-a ken on the line of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a view showing inelevation one of the Hanging disks and the series of cooperating rollers. indicating the progressive changes in their positional relation: Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail view of one of the flanging rollers with its mountings. and Fig. 8 is a detail view hereinafter deserilied.

Referring now to the drawings in detail.

-and 13, one at each end thereof. and the preferably arched upwardly-projecting frames or brackets 11' and 15 connected by the brace 16. The base 11 is also provided with a smaller standard at eachend thereof. the standard 17 being shown in Fig. 2 and its counterpart being correspondingly located at the other end of said base. Journaled in these standards 17. and in enlarged baseportions of the frames H and 15, is the main driving-shaft 18 carrying at one end thereof the driving-pulley 19 or any other desired form of power transmitting means.

Fixed in a suitable aperture in each of the standards 13 and 1% is a sleeve. the sleeve 20 in the standard 13 being shown in Figs. 3

and 4. and the other (not shown) in the stanchion 12 being its opposite counterpart.

In these sleeves is mounted the shaft 21- which is rotated by means of a gear 22, near one end thereof. in permanent intermeshing relation to a gear "23 on' the 'main drivingshaft 18. Mounted to rotateon the sleeve 20 are the gears 24 and which may be rigidly connected together-as by the bolt 26, as shown-or which may be integral or provided with an integral hub, the desired feature being that both rotate asone member on gear 24 rotates with the gear 25, and the hub said sleeve 20. The counterpart sleeve'in the stanchion 1 2'similarly provides bearings for -one of said counterpart halves, and with particular reference to Figs. 3 and L'I have shown .a'collar or hub 29, rotatable on the sleeve 20, suitably held against axial movement, and provided with the heavy flanges and 31 in which are provided bearings for a series of shafts32' 32, prefersix innumber, equidistantly disposed th respect to the circumference of said flanges. The flange 31 also carries the gear 33, suitably'fixed thereon, in permanent intermeshing relation with a reversing gear 34 having suitablebearings on the frame15, which, in turn, meshes with a gear 35 on the main driving-shaft 18. The gear 33 is pro vided with a series of apertures 36 36, corresponding in relative circumferential positions to the shafts 32 32. Each of these shafts'32 32- is provided at its extremity with a small gear 37 which projects'into and is freely rotatable in its corresponding aperture in the faceof the gear'33, and which, upon axial reciprocation of. the shaft upon Which it is mounted, has a sliding movement throughsaid aperture. These gears 37 37' are mounted and adjusted to project through said apertures and be in permanent intern'ieshing relation to the gear 24 on the sleeve driving-shaft 18 is rotated, motion will be transmitted through the gears 23 and 22 to the shaft 21; -The sleeve 20 being fixed,

motion will be transmitted to the gear 25, in thesante directioinby means of the gear 38, 'on the shaft 18, n'ieshing with the gear 25.

Furthermore, the h-ubi29, together with the 35. on the shaft 18 acting through the intermediate gear 34c to drive" the apertured gear- 33 on the flange 31 of said hub 29." The 29, driven by the gear35, rotates in a reverse direction; The gears 37 37, projecting through theapertures 36 in the gear 33, be- .ing in permanent interme'shing relation With said gear 24, Will not only revolve with said hub 29 around the axis of said hub,- but will, on account of the reverse rotation of the gear 2ft, each rotate rapidly on its own 'JXIS.

Suit-ably mounted and fixed upon the shaft 21, is a pair of circular disks and 40. It is intended that the peripheries of these disks form supports for th; extreme en'dsof the can-body during the hanging operation.

Therefore, while fixed upon the shaft during such-operationor during a series of such operat1onsthey should be ad ustable on sa 1d shaft in order that the distance between their working edges may be made to conform to any one of the various lengths of standardcan-bodies.

Referring, now, back to one of the counterpart halves of the Hanging mechai'iisn'l, each of the shafts 32 is provided at its end, opposite to the end carryingthe gear 37, with a flanging roller 41. Each of these rollers is of a working configuration where by the same may cooperate with the'disk 40 to form thefiange at one end of the can v body, as hereinafter described As hereinbefore suggested, the present invention contemplates a machine to which unflanged can-bodies may be delivered automatically, which bodies will be, after the Hanging operation,- automatically ejected from thennachine. In the delivery of cans to the flanging mechanism, as. hereinafter described in detail, these can-bodies are designed to rest against the peripheries of the disks 39 and 40, and in being delivered to said disks it will be apparent that there must be no part or member of the machine interposed in the path of movement of each can body during itstransmissionto its adjusted position against the disks.

These disks, as hereinbefore shown, are rotated, and 111 the hanging operation, as contemplated by this -invention, the series of flan'ging rollers a1 41 are adapted, in addition to the purely flange mg operation, to each engage a can-body 3 from opposite ends thereof and form an in- 20. Itwi'll now be apparent that when the teri or support therefor. It is, therefore, obvious that during the revolution of said rollers, they must be moved longitudinally on their axes, to clear the path of movement of the can-body during its delivery to the supporting disks, and returned at the proper time and in such manner that the reduced end-portion 42 of the roller will enterthe mechanism 'carried thereby, will be rotated i in a, reverse direction by means of the gear I' open-end of the can-body, carry the latter forwardand support the same'from the inl terior thereof during the flanging operation.

Each cooperating pair of the rollers 41 ll, therefor, must have three movements; a Ion.-

gitudinal or endwise movement, to provide for their proper lateral adjustment, a revolutionar-ymovement to carry the can-body forward along the cooperative edges of the disks 39 and 40, and a rotary movement to effect the hanging operation. I have hereinbefore described the manner in which said rollers are revolved and-rotated, and. explained that said rollers, in each'of said counterpart halves, are mounted on the ends of shafts, 32 32 Which have a limited sliding movement in their bearings in the flanges 30 and 31 on the hub 29, the opposite series of rollers being similarly and correspondinglymountedand adjusted; Sliding movement Hill of each of the shafts 32 is independently controlled by means of a lever 43, fulcrumed in the hub 29 at 4%. "Each of said shafts is 'provided with a collar 45 suitably fixed known form of'clutch-operating connection,

whereby upon operation of said lever 43 a reciprocating sliding movement will be imparted to the shaft 32.

.Each of the frame-brackets l-l and'15 isprovidedwith' corresponding cams 4S and 49, respectively, and each of the shaft-controlling levers 43 is provided at its' free end with a roller ,50. -.The cam 49' (referring again to one-of saicl counterpart halves) 1s located in the normal orbital path of move ment of each of the rollers in the corresponding series thereof, each lever 43 being outwardly pressed at all times by means of a spring 51 in tension between said lever 43 and the frame 15. As each roller 50 reaches the outer end of each of the levers 4:3, carrying saidrollers. will be moved laterally.

carrying therew its corresponding shaft 32-w ith the 'flan ng roller *1. It will be apparent, therefore, that these cams 48 and 49 may be so arranged. adjusted and disposed that at a proper point in the revolution of the hub 29 and its opposite counterpart, a pair of flanging-rollers t1 will be simultaneously forced toward each other to engage opposite ends of the can-body, properly positioned against the disks 39 and'tO, and carry said body forward for the flanging operation. Similarly, it will be apparent that the cams 48 and 49 may be terminated at a point in the revolution of the mechanism carried by the hub 29 and its counterpart, to simultaneously withdraw said pairof rollers, after the Hanging operation has been completed. and. permit of the withdrawal or ejectment of the flanged can-body.

gradual one.

It is well known in this art that the process of formation of an. annular flange at the endless end-edge of a cam-body must be a Any abrupt or variable outward bending of said edge would undoubtcdly result in strains of a character to fracture the metal. If these strains are gradually imposed, and kept within the limit of the tensile strength of the metal, the latter will yield sufficiently to form the flange fraction of one complete revolution of said rollers effect the fianging operation and permit of the ejectmentof the flanged can-body.

To effect this flanging operation, it will be noticed that the shaft 21 is not concentrically mounted with respect to the sleeve 20 and its counterpart, but is eccentric with re spect thereto, as. is bestshown in Fig. 4.

The hub 29 and its counterpart, being contruly circular. orbit whichis, however. eccentric with respect to the circular working peripheries of the disks 39 and i0. Obviously, this eccentricity may be made such that the orbit of revolution of said rollers will at one point be substantially tangential to the circumference of one of said disks, from which point it recedes outwardly from said circumference through an arc of 180, at the end of which are it reaches its maximum distance from said circumference. Therefore, these fianging rollers may be so mounted that atone point in their orbit of revolution there is no cotiperative action between the passing pair of said rollers and said disks. Furthermore, at this point, there has been no cooperative action between the cams l8 and 49 and the levers l3, and the jrollers 41 are, therefore, in their most retracted position, as shown in Fig. 3). As theserollers are advanced from this point by the rotation of the hub 29, the cams l8 and 49 first operate through the levers 43 to slide the shaft 32 and bring the working edge of the roller l1 into substantially the plane of the disk 40. (similar operations'taking place in the other counterpart halfrbut not, at this point. as has been explained) into complete coiiperative relation to said disk. The orbit of revolution of said rollers from this pointgradually approaches the periphery of the disk, until, at the end of movement through an arc of 180 there is the maximum cooperative action between roller and disk, as shown in Fig. 3. Cotiperative act-ion then gradually decreases, until the ends of the cams 48 and 49 are reached at which point the rollers of each pair in turn are again retracted.

To effect the proper delivery of can bodies to the flanging mechanism, I provide an inclined chute 53, preferably supported by braces 54 secured to the base 11 of the machine. Thi s chute 53 is provided with side guides 55 mounteftl at a distance from each other which approximates the length of the the machine, resting against each other suc- -cess1vely.

Referring again to one of the counterpart halves of the fianging mechanism, and this description similarly applying to both there-' the location of one of the fianging rollers 41,"

this strip 57 is upwardly curved to substantially semi-circular form, as best shown in Fig. 5, adapted to partially surround the roller when projected therebetween. On the other side of said arms, the strip 58 substantially'corresponds in curvature to the periphery of the disk 40. It will be apparent that as the cans are forced by gravity down the chute 53, the foremost can-body will impinge against the pair of strips 58, which will check further downward movement until the pair of'strips 57 are reached, which form a pocket into which the first or next f-succeeding can-body drops. Immediately upon having dropped into this pocket,

the can-body is in position to beengaged by a pair of rollers 41, and at this point the controlling-levers 43 of this pair of rollers are operated by the cams'48 and 49 ro1lers-which as has been explained are rapidly rotating witht-he curved end-edges -of the can-body interposed between the same and the working-edges of saiddiskscarries said can-body forward and as the periphery of the reduced portion 42 of each of the pair of rollers approaches the working-edge of its corresponding disk, the flange is completed. v p

' It will be noted that the substantially. circularly-curved strips 57 which form what I have termedia'pocket, move with the hubs 2'9, andtherefore are at all tiniesinthe's'ame positional relation to their corresponding pair of flangmg rollers. Ihe can-body,

' therefore, does notleave said pocket during said flanging operation, but is carried forcan-body being below avhorizontal plane through the axis of said hub, sot-hatupon ,such release the flanged can-body will roll by gravity out of said pocket and into the chute 60 for final delivery to any desired,

ward therein, the point of final release of the point. It will" thus be apparent that for each complete rotation of the hub 29 and its counterpart, as many cans may be flanged as there are pairs of flanging rollers carried by said hubs. A machine embodying my invention maythus be successfully operated at a velocity limited only by the time required for gravity to overcome inertia and eflect the'delivery of a can-body to the containingpocket and its subsequent ejectment therefrom.

. Many modifications of minor details of construction, location, adjustment and operation will doubtless readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains, and I therefore do not desire to limit said invention to the specific embodiment thereof herein shown and described.

'lVhat I claim as my invention is 1. In a flangingmachine, the combination of a continuously moving element and a member having a working edge moving in an opposite direction, said element having intermittent cooperative action with the working edge of said member to flange a can body interposed therebetween.

2. In a flanging machinc, the combination of a. continuously moving element, a mem-' ber having a work ng edge continuously moving in an opposite direction, said element having intermittent coiiperative action with the working edge of said member to flange a can body interposed therebetween,

' and means for. delivering a canbody theretoduring a period of non-coiiperative relation.

3. In a flanging machine, the combination of a continuously moving element, a member having a working edge continuously moving in an opposite direction, said element having intermittent cooperative action with the working edge of said member to flange a can body interposed therebetween, and means for delivering-a can body thereto and ejecting a flanged .body therefrom during each period of non-cooperative relation.

4.111 a hanging machine, the combination of a continuously movingpair of elements .providing a carriage and supporting means for one of the bodies to be flanged, and a pair of members'each having. a working edge continuously moving in a direction opposite to that of said elements, said elements having intermittent cooperative action with the working edges of said members to simuh taneously flange both end edges of a can body interposed therebetween.

5.. In a flanging machine, the combination of a continuously moving pair of elements providing a carriage and supporting means for one of the bodies to be flanged, a. pair of members each having a-Workiug edge continuously moving in a direction opposite to that of said elements, said elements having intermittent cooperative action with the working edges of said .members to simultanet usly flange both end edges of a can body interposed therebetween, and means for delivering a can body thereto during a period 0t non-cooperative relation.

6. In a flanging machine, the combination of a continuously moving pair of elements providing a-carriage and supporting means for one of the bodies to be flanged, a pair of members each having a working edge continuously moving in a direction opposite to that of said elements, said elements having intermittent cooperative action with the working edges of said members to simultaneously flange both end edges of a can body interposed therebetween, and means for delivering a canbody thereto and ejecting a flanged body therefrom during each period of non-cooperative relation.

7'. In a flanging machine, the combination of a series of pairs of continuously moving elements, each pair providinga carriage and supporting means for one of the bodies to be flanged, and two members each having a working edge continucmsly moving in a direction opposite to that of said elements, each pair of elements having intermittent cooperative action with the working edges of said members to flange both end edges of a during a period of non-cooperative relation.

9. In a flanging machine, the combination of a series of pairs of continuously moving elements, each pair providing a carriage and supporting means for one of the bodies to be flanged, two members each having a Working edge continuously moving in a direction opposite to that of said elements, each pair of elements having intermittent cooperative action with the working edges of said members to flange both end edges of a can body" interposed therebetween, and means for delivering a can body to each of said carriages and ejecting a flangedbody therefrom during eachperiod of non-cooperative rela- 10. In a flanging machine/the combination i of a series of moving elements and a member having an endless working edge-moving in an opposite d1rect1on,sa'1d elements serving to support and advance a can body and mtermittently cooperating with said member to flange said body in transit.

11. In a flanging machine, the combination of a series of moving elements and a member having an endless worln'ng edge moving in an oppositedirection, said elements serving to supportand advance a can body and intermittently cooperating with said member to flange said body in transit, the coopera tion being progressively continuous throughout each Hanging operation.

12.111 a flanglngmachine, the combinationot a. series of moving elements and a member having an endless Working edge moving in an opposite direction, said elements serving to support and advance a can body and intermittently cooperating with said member to flange said body in transit, and means for delivering a canbody to said elements during each period of non-cooperative relation.

13. In a flanging machine, the combination of a series of moving elements and a member having anendless working edge moving in an opposite direction, said elements serving to support'and advance a can body and intermittently cooperating with said member to flange said body in transit, the cooperation being progressively continuous thronglmuf'each flanging operation, and means for-delivering a can body to said elements during each period of non-cooper ative relation.

H. In a flanging machine, the combination of a series of moving elements and a member having an endless working edge moving in the opposite direction, said elements serving to support and advance a can body and intermittently cooperating with said member to flange said body in transit, and means for delivering a can body to said elements and ejecting a flanged body therefrom during'each period of non-cooperative relation. i

15.. In a flanging machine, the combination of aseries of moving elements and a member having an endless working eugemoving in an opposite direction, said elements serving to support and advance a can .body andintermittently cooperating with said memberto flange saidbody in transit,

the cooperation being progressively continuous throughout each flanging operation, and means for delivering a can body to said elements and ejecting a flanged body therefrom during each period of non-cooperative relation. D

16. In a flanging machine, the combination of a series of elements. traveling in an endless'path and a member having an endless working edge moving in an opposite direction, said elements serving to support and advance a can body and intermittently cooperating with said member to flange said .body in transit.

17. In a fla-nglng machine, the combinatlon of a series of element traveling in an endless path and a member having an end- A e as less working edge moving in an opposite dlrection, saidv elements serving to support. and advance a can bodyand intermittently cooperating with said member to flange said body intransit, the cooperation being progressively continuous throughout each fiangmg operation.- 18. In a tlanging machine, the combination'of a series of elenilentstraveling in an 0 endless path and a member having an end- I less working edge' moving in an opposite ,direction, said element serving to support and advance a can body and intermittently cooperating with said member to flange said body in transit-,and means for delivering a can body to said elements during each period of non-cooperative relation.

'19 v Ina Hanging machine, the combination pf. a" series 0t moving elements and a member g ving an endless working edge moving in' an opposite direction, said elements serving to support and advance a can body and intermittently cooperating with saidmember to 'liange said body in transit, the cooperation being progressively continuous throughout each fianglng operation, and

means for delivering a can body to said elements and ejecting a flanged body therefrom 'durln each eriod of non-coo erative so relation.

, 20. The combination, with a rotating canbody support, a fianging roller and means for revolving said roller around said support in intermittently cooperative relation thereas: to, of means for successively interposing the end-edge of a can body between said roller and support during each period of non-cooperative relation.

j '21. The combination, with a support hav- 40 ing an endless Working edge, of a flanging roller, means for revolving said roller around saidsupport in intermittently cooperative relation thereto, means for successively in terposing the end-edge of a can-body be- =45 tween said roller andsupp ort during each period of non-cooperative relation, and means'for maintaining said can-body subject to the cooperative action.

22. The combination, with a' support having an endless working edge,of a fianging roller, means for revolving said roller around said support in intermittently cooperative relation thereto, means for successively-i11 terposing the end-edge of a can-body between said roller and support during each period of non-cooperative relation, means for maintaining said can-body subject to the cooperative action, and means for ejecting the flanged body prior to the next succeeding operation.

23. The combination, with a pair of supports having corresponding endless working edges, of a pair of tlanging rollers, laeans 1 for revolving said-rollers around said sup-- ports in correspondingly intermittent cosuccessively interposing the opposite endedges of a can-body between said rollers and said supports and releasing a flanged body therefrom during each period of non-co-' operative relation.

25. The combination, with a pair of supports having corresponding endless working edges, of a pair of flanging rollers, means for revolving said rollers around said supports in correspondingly intermittent cooperative relation thereto, and means for successively inter-posing the opposite endedges of a can-body between said rollers and said supports during each period of noncooperative relation, and means for maintaining said can-body subject to the cooperative action andejecting the flanged body at the end thereof.

26. The combination, with a moving canbody support having an endless working edge, of a series of flanging rollers, means for revolving said rollers around said supportin successively intermittent cooperative relation thereto, and means for inter-posing the end-edge of a can-body between each roller and said support just prior to the period of cooperative operation.

27. The combination, with-a moving canbody support having an endless working edge, of a series of Hanging rollers, means for revolving said rollers around said support insuccessively intermittent cooperative relation thereto, the points of cooperative and non-cooperative relation being fixed, and means for successively interposing the end edge of a can-body between each roller and the support at a point of non-cooperative action. 1

:28. The combination, with a pair of rotating can body supports, of a series of pairs of Hanging rollers, means for revolving said rollers around said supports, each pair in successively intermittent cooperative relation thereto, and means for inter osing the opposite end-cdges of a can-bot y between each pair 'of'rollers and said supports just prior to the period of cooperative operation.

29. The combination, with a pair of rotating can body supports, of a series of pairs of flanging rollers", means for revolving said rollers around saidsupports, each pair in successively intermittent cooperative relation thereto, and means for interposing the opposite end-edges of a can-body between each llO . a flanging roller revolving around said support, rotating on its own axis, and having automatic bodily, movement longitudinally with respect to said axis.

31. In -a machine of the character decribed, the combination, with a rotating support having an endless working edge, of a rollermovingin an orbit of revolution, ro-

,-tating on its own axis and having automatic bodil y movement longitudinally, and means for bringing said 'roller into intermittent cooperative relation to said support.

32. 11; a machine of the character described, the combination,; with a rotating "support having an endless working edge, of

a roller rotating on its own axis and revoluble around said support in intermittent cooperative relation thereto, and means for re: ciprocati'ng said roller longitudinally during each period of non-cooperativeoperation.

3. In a machine of the character described, the combination,-.with a rotating support having 'an endless working edge, of

' a roller rotating on its own axis and revolu ble around said support in intermittent cooperative-relation thereto, and means for reciprocating said roller longitudinally during each period of non-cooperative operation without interruption of rotation or revolution,

3L In a machine of the character describe-d,- the combination, with a pair of moving supports each having an endless working edge, of a pair of rollers positively rotated on their own axes and u'nisonally revoluble around said supporting means in correspondingly intermittentclitiperative relation thereto, and means for simultaneously reciprocating said rollers lon itudinally in opposite directions duringthe periods of non-coiiperative operation.

35. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a pair of moving supports each having an endless nrn-coiiperative operation without interruption of rotation or revolution.

36. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with supporting means having a circular working edge, of a roller revolving around said supporting means, the orbit of revolution of said roller scribed, the combination, with substantially circular supporting means, of a flanging roller revoluble therearound in an orbit which is. eccentric with respect thereto, whereby there are intermittent periods of coiiperative relation, and means for interposing the end-edge of a can-body between said rollers and said supporting means while said roller is at a point in said orbit anterior to the initial point of cooperative operation.

39. In a machine of therharacter described, the combination, with substantially circular supporting means, of a flanging roller revoluble therearound in an orbit which is eccentric with respect thereto, whereby there are intermittent periods of codperative relation, means for interposing the end-edge of a can-body between said rollers and said supporting means while said roller is at a point in said orbit anterior to the point of cotiperative operation, means forholidi'ng said can-body subject to said operatioii, andnieans for ejecting the flanged body prior to one complete revolution.

40. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with substantially circular supporting means, of a roller revoluble therearound in an orbit which is eccentric with respect. thereto, whereby there are -intermittent periods of coiiperative relation,

and means for bodily withdrawing said roller during the period of non-cooperative relation for the interposition of the end-edge of a can-body before, and the release thereof after, each period of cotiperative relation.

4-1. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with substantially circular supporting-means, of a series of rollers revoluble therearound in a common rbit which is eccentric with respect to the circular edge of said supporting means, whereby cooperation between said support and each of said rollers is successively intermittent, and means for inter-posing the end-edge of a can-body between each roller and said supporting means just prior to the period of cooperative operation thereof.

42. In a machinetof the character described, the combination, with substantially circular supporting i'nieans, of a series of pairsof rollers, revoluble unisonally thereoperative operation thereof.

around in correspondil'ig orbits Which are eccentric with respect to the circular edges of said supporting means, whereby cooperation between said supports and each pair of rollers 1s successively intermittent, and means for interposmg the end-edges of a can-body between-each pair of rollers and said supporting means just prior to the period. of cod? In a machine of the character described, the combination of a revoluble shaft,

a cawedge-supportingdisk mounted there:

.on, a non-rotatable sleeve on said shaft and eccentric thereto, a member concentrically mounted on said sleeve androtatable' thereon, a Hanging roller, journaled in bearings in said member and intermittently cooperating with said disk, and means for rotating said shaft and said member in opposite directions. I

4:4. In machine of the character described, the combination of a revoluble shaft,

a can-edge-supporting .disk mounted there 4C5. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a revoluble shaft,

3'5 ,acan-edge-supporting disk mounted thereing with said disk,

on, a non-rotatable sleeve on said shaft and eccentric thereto, amember concentrically mounted on saidsleeve and rotatable thereon, a lianging roller journaled in hearings in said member and intermittently cooperatmeans for positively rotating said roller, means" for axially reciprocating said roller at fixed intervals, and

means for rotating said shaft and said memher in oppositedirections.

46. In a machine of the character described, the combinat-ion-of a revoluble shaft, :1 can-edge-supporting disk mounted thereon, a non-rotatable"sleeve on said shaft and eccentric thereto, a member concentrically mounted on said sleeve and rotatable thereon, a series of flangi-ng rollers journaled in bearings in said member and having successively intermittent cooperation with said disk, and means for-rotating said shaft and said member in opposite directions.

e17. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a revoluble shaft, a can-edge-supporting disk mounted thereon, a non-rotatable sleeve on said shaft M i eccentric thereto, a member concentrically mounted 011 said sleeve and rotatable thereon, a series of flanging rollers journaled in hearings in said member and having successively intermittent cooperation with saiddisk, means for positively rotating each roller, and means for rotating said shaft'and said inember inopposite directions.

48. In a machine of the character de scribed, the combination of arevoluble shaft, a ca11-edge-supporting disk mounted thereon, a non-rotatable sleeve on. said shaft and eccentric thereto, a member concentrically mounted on said sleeve and rotatable there: on,a series of flanging rollers journaled in bearings in'said; member and having successively intermittent cooperation with said disk, means for positively? rotating each roller, means for axially reciprocating each roller in turn at a fixed point in the common orbit of revolution, and means for rotating said shaft and said member in opposite directions. p

49. Ina machine of the class described, the combination of a r'evoluble shaft and a pair ofcounterp'art flanging mechanisms,-

each of said mechanisms comprising a canedge-supporting disk fixed on said shaft, a non-rotatable sleeve on said shaft and. cccentric thereto, a member concentrically mounted on said sleeve and revoluble thereon,,and alianging roller journaled in bearings in said member and intermittently cooperating with said disk,'and means for rotating said'shaft-and said members in opposite directions.

'. 50. In a machine of the class described. the combination of a revoluble shaft and a pair of counterpart flanging mechanisms,- each of said mechanisms comprising a canedge-supporting disk fixed on said shaft, :1 non-rotatable sleeve on said shaft and eccentric thereto, a member concentrically mounted on said sleeve and revoluble thereon, a fia-ngingroller journaled in hearings in said member and intermittently cooperating with said disk, and means for positively rotating said roller on its axis,and means for rotating saidshaft and said members in opposite directions. 51. In a machine ofthe class described, the combination of a revoluble shaft and a pair of'counterpart flanging mechanisms, each of said mechanisms comprising a canedge-supporting disk fixed on said shaft, a non-rotatable sleeve on said shaft and eccentric thereto, a member concentrically. mounted on said sleeve and revoluble thereon, a Hanging roller journaled in bearings in said member and intermittently cooperating with said disk, means for positively rotating said roller-on its axis, and'means for axially reciprocating said roller at'ffixed intervals, and means for'rotating said shaftand said .menibers in opposite directions.

52. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a revoluble shaft anda pair of counterpart Hanging mechanisms,

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each of said mechanisms comprising a can- I non-rotatable sleeve on said shaft and eccentric thereto, a member concentrically mount- I ed on said sleeve and revoluble thereon, and

edge-supporting diskfixed on said shaft, a-

non-rotatable sleeve on. said shaft and eccentr1c.thereto, a member concentrlcally mounted on said sleeve and revoluble thereon, a

series of Hanging rollers journaled in bearings in said member and having successively" intermittent cooperation with said disk, and means for positively rotating each roller on its axis,and means for rotating said shaft and said'm'embers in opposite directions.

54. In a machine of the class described,

the combination of a revoluble sh'aft"'ai a pair of counterpart flanging mechanisms, eaclrof said mechanisms comprising a canedge-supporting disk fixed on said shaft, a non-rotatable sleeve on said shaft and eccentric thereto, a member concentrically mounted on said sleeve and revoluble thereon, a series of Hanging rollers journaled in bearings in said member and having successively intermittent cooperation with said disk, means for positively rotating each roller on its axis, and means for axially reciprocating each roller in turn at a fixed point in the common orbit of revolution,and means for rotating said shaft and said members in opposite directions.

In testimony of the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two \v itnesses.

JULIUS BR lCXZl NH Eli; 'itnesses P. \V. SHEPARD,

Fnnn H. Bownnsoon. 

